Noticing how PBS‘s Gwen Ifill has a penchant for “filling her Washington Week program with journalists who almost invariably agree with each other instead of actually debating the issues of the week,” critic Charles Kaiser decided to contact her (CJR.org, 5/8/09) about a recent “discussion of torture in which the only issue the panelists identified was how the Obama administration should deal with the political fallout from the demands for a full-scale investigation and/or prosecution of the officials responsible for American torture.” Kaiser’s question of whether it would “ruin the discussion to have one person who believes that a full […]